Manager – Major Projects at KPMG
KPMG
- Kenya
- Permanent
- Full-time
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- Company:
- Location: Kenya
- State:
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category:
- The individual will assist the leadership team in day-to-day engagement management on specific projects and will:
- Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to senior associates and associate team members.
- Develop and present client materials including status reports, project reports, and presentations.
- Monitor budgets, schedules, work quality, scope, and client deliverables.
- Contribute to hands-on delivery of projects and programs which may include programme design and development; benefits and quality management; stakeholder management; portfolio management; programme and project planning including milestone management; and risk and issue management.
- Integral to delivering these responsibilities will be PMO Management, financial management; maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, actions log; resource forecasting; dependency management; and programme reporting.
- Work individually and with different teams of the firm to improve our profile in the infrastructure sector market (through involvement in industry groups, thought leadership, speaking engagements)
- Establish and develop a network of stakeholders in the infrastructure sector (authorities, regulators, financial institutions, investment funds, developers, contractors, technical advisers, and legal advisers etc.)
- Lead and support in business development activities
- Provide project strategy and development analysis in some or all of the following areas:
- Capital Programme and/or Project Management
- Infrastructure planning and strategy
- Feasibility, business case, and market analysis
- Procurement options analysis and managing procurement processes
- Project risk assessment
- Project governance and project management frameworks
- Contract management
- Coordinating legal, financial, and/or technical teams
- Project implementation advice through design and construction
- Project controls; Resource planning and PMO management
- Communication
- Decision making
- Bachelor’s degree (combined with a Master’s degree, preferred but not required).
- Professional registration within the built environment and/or project management qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or other similar certification.
- Project feasibility, options appraisal, and/or project structuring experience.
- Project procurement experience through to financial close.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in construction, real estate, infrastructure project management, and/or infrastructure consulting.
- Demonstrate and articulate KPMG values as well as proven capability in:
- Demonstrated capacity for team leadership throughout all project lifecycle stages.
- Analytical skills covering transaction structuring, value for money assessments, economic cost-benefit assessments, and more.
- Influencing skills in engaging with stakeholders at senior levels, including ministerial interactions in Africa.
- Negotiation skills for securing commercial and financial project close.
- Pragmatic problem-solving abilities and adaptability to new environments.
- Goal-driven and results-oriented mindset.
- Multicultural skills to operate across diverse African jurisdictions.
- Resilience, tenacity, and the ability to handle difficult client conversations.
- Administrative skills to manage a portfolio of clients across the continent.
- Strong knowledge of theories, concepts, and approaches relevant to architecture, urban planning, and design.
- Understanding of urban development issues in the Kenyan context.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work under stress, and perseverance to drive desired outcomes.
- Comfort with multitasking, flexibility, open-mindedness, and the ability to make quick decisions.
- Unquestionable integrity.
- An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on major cutting-edge real estate, construction, and infrastructural developments across Africa.
- Continuous learning and development.
- Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
- Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.
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